One for the Money (2012)

This movie is about as average as you can get. The story itself isn't really important, pretty average for a light crime flick, but it's not really in focus. It's mostly about the characters, and I'll grant the movie this, they are for the most part decently played and engaging enough.The main character who carries us through the flick has her charms, and I did quite like the voiceover, that tries to be hard boiled but is clearly inexperienced about it. The main guy, Morelli, played by Jason O'Mara, is nowhere near as charming as the movie seems to think, and some of his attempts at flirting wih our lead are not much more than uncomfortable. I won't go into it too much, but there was a bit of a troubling undercurrent of the movie of the minority characters either being jokes or bastards, in a way that came off uncomfortably to me. Nothing about this movie seemed malignant (hell too much flavor either way might disturb it's made-for-tv-ness), but it's not impressing on many nuance fronts.All in all, acceptable watch if you really have emptied out Netflix and the popcorn's already made, but otherwise not enough style or substance to be particularly memorable.

Maybe it's because I find Katherine Heigl a woman so radiantly lovely I can't get overly concerned about her reputation for being a Satanic wart-hog diva. I can't understand why the hostility toward One for the Money, wherein Heigl is newbie skip tracer Stephanie Plum.I can't comprehend why a movie that has some decent soul, a good amount of humor, and captures the essence of Janet Evanovich's heroine and cast of characters is so reviled.I can tell you that I've read a few of Evanovich's Plum books, and I didn't have trouble blending what I saw in my mind's eye with the film-maker's vision. Since I am, at heart, a pig, I also can imagine Heigl cuffed to her shower curtain rod and it's an R-rated movie.Sudsy!

I was so excited to see a movie made of one of my favorite books. Katherine Heigl was the perfect choice for Stephanie Plum, she brought the character from the book to life convincingly. All the characters were perfect from the book. The only character that didn't translate well to the movie was the car, old blue, needed to be an older car, but it worked anyway. This movie is pure entertainment, just like the books, the character development, action and the little things that make it such a good read are all present in the movie. I am so looking forward to any more that Sony pictures can do with this book series, I can't wait for another movie from Janet Evonovich's books.

I can only say that this movie is a travesty. I had high hopes for this movie as I have been a Stephanie Plum fan for years. The acting in this movie is sub par and the actors chosen do not fit the parts. Katherine Heigl as Stephanie Plum is ridiculous and she makes a mockery of the character. Jason Mara as Joe Morelli is equally terrible. Ranger makes a brief appearance in the film and the actor cast does not do the character justice either. Where the books are laugh out loud funny the movie is just plain painful. This movie makes sure that it is the last we will see of Stephanie Plum on screen. I do not recommend wasting your time with this movie unless you have ample time to kill and would like to watch something that will likely make your eyes and ears bleed. I would really like to have something good to say about this movie but there really is nothing I can say. If I were Janet Evanovich I would be furious that Hollywood turned a memorable character into such a forgettable movie. Again, I would watch anything else before I would watch this movie. I made the mistake of seeing it in the theater and wasting my hard earned money on it.